Cook is the King !

I wanted to write this long back of one of my memories of my stay with friends cum roomies in Mumbai. One day we all decided to hire a cook so that we can have proper homemade food and don’t have to spend time on cooking activity. After some search, we managed to find one. She was a young, married, lean presentable lady (must be in her early 30s). We were quite happy to have her(only on first day as later we could hardly see her as it was more of her absence rather than our presence in the house). After some negotiation, we had a pact with her that she will come everyday in the morning to prepare meal for us but to our dismay, she could be with us only for few months with less than 50% attendance in each month. So we used to check with her the next day for the reason for not coming to her workplace i.e. our house and the excuses she used to give us were as follows:
1. I could not wake up early in the morning. (One of the most common reply which she often used to say)
2. It was cold in the morning so could not step outside. (You know Mumbai’s Cold)
3. I lost my phone. (Whose phone was she using then?)
4. Had to attend the funeral of this and that relative……. (Some of them died twice)
5. Someone in the local train stabbed me with a knife and I fell on the Platform and got senseless. (Shall I believe this?).
And the height was –She asked us one day if we can wake her up in the morning by giving her a call so that she can come. This time we were half senseless.
All these lame excuses by her used to make us wonder- what would happen if we come up with the same thing in the office for not coming or reaching office on time….